Hate Crimes



Hate Crimes

Introduction

There are various crimes committed only on the basis of personal biases or hatred. Sometimes these biases are against a single person or some times against a community or the whole society(Broyles, 2009, p.4). These crimes are generally targeted against a particular race or due to prejudice against other ethnic or religious group. There are also evidences of a particular social behavior which leads to the killing of particular sex. Criminology departments, government and various law enforcement agencies are taking particular actions against these crimes but instead of decrease in these crimes there is still increase in hate crimes. The example of social hate crimes is the Ku Klux Klan which is an organized community that originated after world War II against the black Americans and especially when they demanded for their freedom. Their main purpose was to oppose these people but later they involved in various criminal and illegal activities. These hate crimes consist of criminal activities like vandalism, assault, and murder. This requires the proper understanding of the proper reasons and factors behind these hate crimes. It is not the crime that needs to be prevented these are the factors and causes that lead to these crimes. If it is essential to stop these crimes the most essential step is to stop the reasons for these crimes.

Discussion

Profile of the Typical Individual Who Commits Hate Crimes

Hate crimes against the social biases are committed by the organized groups while there are various individuals involved in the hate crimes and their profiles are entirely different from those who are involved in the social crimes. Profile of the typical individual who commits hate crime is most commonly man is involved in these types of crimes. Next important feature is that this type of individual is young, and age group ranges from 14-40, mostly teenagers and adult males. Another distinguishing feature is that they are mostly white especially in case against blacks otherwise for other crimes against sexual biases, blacks are also involved. Next important thing to notice in their profile is their family, social or psychological background. These people also lack moral and ethical values, ill-bred and narrow minded. The behavior of this kind of individual is also very violent and aggressive. The profile of such individual also provides reasons for the crime which is usually due the influence of anger, hatred, under the influence of drug or alcohol and sometimes against a targeted and particular bias against the victim(Perry, 2003 P.126-127). Behavior of such individual after committing the crime is that he usually feels satisfied and justified that he exactly did what the victim actually deserved.

Targets and/or Victims of Hate Crimes

In United States most of the victims of hate crimes are the blacks and the women. Apart from these there are various other victims like minorities in the United Sates and other religions. The most common against the blacks involves that these were targeted by the organizations operating against them like the Ku Klux ...